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SARS - Serious and Airborne No Matter What the Public is Told.
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| March 26, 2003
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Posted on 03/29/2003 10:59:57 AM PST by Nov3
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To: meyer
I'm drinking iced tea Remember that Lipton sonsers the Dixie Chicks.
To: Colorado Doug
sponsers=sponsors My bad
To: Colorado Doug
Remember that Lipton sonsers the Dixie Chicks.Nestea, but thanks for the warning. :^)
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posted on
03/29/2003 6:55:14 PM PST
by
meyer
To: An American In Dairyland
Should you get this, (and I sincerely hope you do not), you will be far too sick to be able to hydrate yourself much less take an aspirin. An illness this severe will not be helped by aspirin anyway. If it gets bad, I'm stocking up on ringers lactate. Best stuff in the world, and I know how to pop and IV. I completely disagree on your opinion on aspirin. It not only helps reduce fever but it's anti-inflamatory. Keeps vital from swelling namely the brain.
Granted, these are small measures with something so serious, but people are surviving this. Hydration, fever reduction and reducing swelling can be a factor, especially in a "close call" situation.
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posted on
03/29/2003 7:16:10 PM PST
by
AAABEST
To: Nov3
For everyone to think about when we hear that this disease is hard to transmit
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posted on
04/26/2003 12:37:22 PM PDT
by
Nov3
To: AbeLincoln
After 3--7 days, a lower respiratory phase begins with the onset of a dry, nonproductive cough or dyspnea, which might be accompanied by or progress to hypoxemia. In 10%--20% of cases, the respiratory illness is severe enough to require intubation and mechanical ventilation. The case-fatality rate among persons with illness meeting the current WHO case definition of SARS is approximately 3%.
Where are you getting this 80 to 90% serious to critically ill number? As the CDC site notes only 10 to 20% need ventilatory support. I have seen nothing in the literature to support the numbers you site. Come on folks, yes we have a new disease, yes it can be serious and yes some people die from it. It's not the end of the world as we know it.
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04/26/2003 12:52:23 PM PDT
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Kozak
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